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By tomorrow morning while you have the privilege to sit at a table and eat breakfast, 40,000 young children will helplessly starve to death, and this will continue on for countless days. Us all being in a so called “world of plenty”, the catastrophic number of human beings dying from such a ridiculous cause like hunger, malnutrition, and hunger-related diseases is overwhelming. According to statistics above 1 billion of people, around one quarter of the world’s population shatteringly live in poverty.
Who is Hungry?
841 million people suffer from hunger and malnutrition across the world; 550 million hungry people live in Asia and 170 million in sub-Saharan Africa. In total, 95% of people experiencing hunger live in developing countries. However, hunger has recently grown in severity in countries like the United States and former Soviet Union countries, mainly as a result of poverty. Very soon 89 million more people will be living in extreme poverty surviving off less than $1.25 per day.
40,000 children under age five die every day from hunger and preventable diseases. That's 24 children a minute, equal to 747 car crashes every hour of every day in a year. The loss of human life from hunger is greater than if an atomic bomb were to be dropped on a heavily populated area every three days. One in every five people in the world is hungry and comparing to this more people have died from hunger in the past two years that were killed in World War I and World War II combined. 70% of childhood deaths are related with malnutrition and preventable diseases. 70% of people in Asia live in extreme poverty. Causes of world hunger include political, economic, and environmental factors.
Political Factors
War is the main cause of hunger. If we look at a map following recent wars then we can clearly see that those countries have a high amount of hunger and malnutrition. Conflict between enemies destroys and demolishes crops and takes labour and other resources out of food production. The importance many governments place on military spending is connected to hunger. An uneven and unfair amount of government money goes towards military purposes as opposed to agriculture, education, fishing and protection of natural resources. Many countries make decisions based upon political concerns, often at the request of more powerful nations. For instance, more than half of U.S. foreign assistance is "security aid" going to military and political allies.
Who is Hungry?
841 million people suffer from hunger and malnutrition across the world; 550 million hungry people live in Asia and 170 million in sub-Saharan Africa. In total, 95% of people experiencing hunger live in developing countries. However, hunger has recently grown in severity in countries like the United States and former Soviet Union countries, mainly as a result of poverty. Very soon 89 million more people will be living in extreme poverty surviving off less than $1.25 per day.
40,000 children under age five die every day from hunger and preventable diseases. That's 24 children a minute, equal to 747 car crashes every hour of every day in a year. The loss of human life from hunger is greater than if an atomic bomb were to be dropped on a heavily populated area every three days. One in every five people in the world is hungry and comparing to this more people have died from hunger in the past two years that were killed in World War I and World War II combined. 70% of childhood deaths are related with malnutrition and preventable diseases. 70% of people in Asia live in extreme poverty. Causes of world hunger include political, economic, and environmental factors.
Political Factors
War is the main cause of hunger. If we look at a map following recent wars then we can clearly see that those countries have a high amount of hunger and malnutrition. Conflict between enemies destroys and demolishes crops and takes labour and other resources out of food production. The importance many governments place on military spending is connected to hunger. An uneven and unfair amount of government money goes towards military purposes as opposed to agriculture, education, fishing and protection of natural resources. Many countries make decisions based upon political concerns, often at the request of more powerful nations. For instance, more than half of U.S. foreign assistance is "security aid" going to military and political allies.